Have a client with a 1900 Bechstein 7' The board is dead and needs replacement. Bass strings appear in good shape -not full of crud and clean looking- but are a little tubby sounding. While tuning several of the top bass bichords I can tune the unisons very well, however - when the unisons are in tune, one string of the unison will be quite a bit out of tune with all adjacent intervals - 3rds, 10ths, 6ths, octaves etc. If I tune the intervals to sound ok then the unison is out of tune as one of the strings will agree with intervals and the other will not. The tuning ends up sounding ok but I have not been to resolve this to my satisfaction. I have tuned it aurally and with a SAT - the aural tunings work better but it is easy to get lost using either - afraid of breaking a string. I have tried alternative techniques like focusing ear and SAT on fundamental frequency rather than the partials with the same resultant issues. Anyone else ever experience this? Gene Nelson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070828/df06498a/attachment.html
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